…you get stories such as these from Scott Galupo at U.S. News and World Report:
But, later in the body of the piece, Team Cuccinelli begins to play other, more presently familiar cards. Glenn Beck fans will recognize the faces in the rogue’s gallery: Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, progressive philosopher John Dewey, and others who, this argument goes, created the post-New Deal legal and philosophical edifice. [Check out our editorial cartoons on healthcare.]
Wouldn’t you know it, this welfare-state stuff constitutes a violation of natural law—which,ipso facto, means economic laissez-faire—and a lurch into moral chaos. Echoing the newly popular Hayek, Cuccinelli’s article asserts the primacy of economic rights while characterizing as relativistic the not-exclusively-liberal jurisprudential argument that personhood and dignity precede the marketplace. (Last I checked, I’ve never seen an unborn baby sign a contract.)
Come conclusion time, the piece sounds eerily like it’s not merely advocating the curtailment of an otherwise defensible attempt to advance the national interest, but rather like a full-throated libertarian manifesto.
Bla-a-a-ah blah blah blah blah! says the U.S. News and World Report as they channel their inner Homer Simpson.
So to review: DO NOT use ten-cent words or anything with more than two syllables around today’s journalist, because if they don’t understand you… they’ll just mock you. Makes total sense.
…and of course, that’s what you want, gentle reader. Otherwise, folks might actually take the time to appreciate deeper thought, especially when it comes from Virginia’s Ken Cuccinelli. Perhaps even beyond the knee-jerk seven word sound bites that our self-described cultural night watchmen laugh at Americans for not understanding, and forcing them to write down to the fifth grade level (no joke — your news is written for fifth to eighth graders)?
Bottom line? Cuccinelli presented a well-thought out designed-for-public-consumption argument against Obamacare, rather than the typical “nuh-uh” that constitutes most of what substitutes for debate and discussion today. You can decide which is better for the country.
